Cal. Rules of Court, rule 1.20 · Chapter 3. Service and Filing
Effective Date of Filing
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
Unless otherwise provided, a document is deemed filed on the date it is received by the court clerk.
Notes and commentary — not rule text
History
Rule 1.20 amended effective January 1, 2017; adopted effective January 1, 2007; previously amended effective January 1, 2008.
Source of truth
- Edition
- As posted by the Judicial Council of California (read October 22, 2026)
- Official file
- https://courts.ca.gov/cms/rules/index/one/rule1_20
- Text hash
- sha256 26c3ba016da6d10d328c8e8dc5ca058211cde1b9b5ab0102ce2724fefbbbdff5
- Composed by
- compose_crc.py 2026-10-22: the Judicial Council's rule pages read paragraph by paragraph; verify_crc.py's second reading of the Council's per-title PDFs finds every paragraph
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